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that song (1942 movie, "Yankee Doodle Dandy," Jimmy Cagney as vaudevillian George M. Cohan) seemed right for singing around 4PM my time (GMT+7) when the USA, from coast to coast, was solidly in the 4th.

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" ... no surprise that Yankee Doodle Dandy was hugely popular upon it’s release in late May/early June 1942. Filming had begun before the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States was still trying to stay out of the world war, but it’s not like filmmakers didn’t know war might be coming and that a patriotic picture might be a good bet. Still, the timing could not have been better for the newfound patriotic fervor of audiences, for star James Cagney’s career, and, ultimately, for the time left before subject George M. Cohen’s death."

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"And the performance of Mr. Cagney as the one and original Song-and-Dance Man is an unbelievably faithful characterization and a piece of playing that glows with energy.True, Robert Buckner and Edmund Joseph, the script-writers, have taken some liberties with Mr. Cohan's life. They have juggled facts rather freely to construct a neat, dramatic story line, and they have let slip a few anachronisms which the wise ones will gleefully spot. But, as the late Sigmund Lubin once put it, they're yours at no extra cost. And, of course, Mr. Cohan had the last word. He said okay, let them go."

i only thought/imagined, later, why that unpremeditated choice popped up:

it's a civil war song; imho, i see America as now as close, politically, culturally, to the polarization, and, violent potential, of that terrible time ?

perversity: the song makes fun of the British (macaroni = fop, superficial, materialistic), already suffering 3 years of WWII at enormous cost, not the nazis ... the real enemy ?

American corporate-occupied-mallburgerland mass-media culture today as vaudeville ?
Β«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindledΒ» Plutarch

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